Discover NewsBank
What is NewsBank?
NewsBank is an incredible digital resource available to every member of the JIS High School community.
They write: "NewsBank consolidates current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Using these online resources, researchers in libraries around the world can easily explore tens of millions of current and archived news articles and obituaries in order to pinpoint information from primary sources at the local, state, regional, national and international levels." It is updated daily so it contains the most up to date. academic primary, and secondary sources.
This tutorial will explore a number of premium features that make NewsBank a tool that supports every student and subject area.
Create an Account
To get the most out of NewsBank, it is best to create an account first. To do you, one first must enter the JIS account. If on campus, one will automatically join to the JIS Newsbank Account. If at home, the login information is available to members of the JIS High School Community here. From there, simply create a personal folder/new account with your JIS credentials.
Learn to Use "More Search Options"
As with all academic databases, it is a great idea to use the advanced search features for research. For this exapmple, I am researching sustainable tourism ideas in Bali or Thailand and have organized my keywords accordingly. Note I have sorted my responses by "Best Match" so the most complete options apprear first. I can also "Apply Lexile Levels" to chose several articles with different reading levels appropriate for my individual students.
Examine & Limit Results
I could still benefit by limiting these results, but I already have a number of good newspaper, newswire, journal and magazine options. I could continue to limit by adding more keywords and looking only at certain source types.
Refine Results by Source Location
One of my favorite featrures in NewsBank allow resdearchers to truly look at topics and issues at a local level. The above results about tourism come from soruces all over the world. With a few clicks, I can quickly limit my results to a publications from a certain region or country. Simply scroll below the Mre Search Options and check the boxes that work for your research. I could choose to only see results from Asian sources, or click deeper....
...and in this case I am only seeing results from sources from nineteen sources in Indonesia
Features Within the Sources
Once I open an article, there are a number of features to explore. From left to right:
Toggle small and large text.
Create a citation from a number of different styles including MLA, Harvard, APA, etc...
Email the article.
Print
Download the article as a PDF or directly to your Google Drive
Save the article to your personal folder for easy future retrieval.
Create and copy a direct link/URL to the article.
Publish the article diectly to a class in your Google Classroom as material, a question, etc...
Below the toolbar, NewsBank can also read the article aloud.
